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Some decisions have to be made this week as we vote in the DIA rankings.

First off, we're happy to see #1-ranked Life take the field, and with a win over #5 Navy Life stays #1. But those teams that aren't playing continue to be vulnerable. Is the Saint Mary's team of 2019-2020 the #3 team in the country? Maybe. Maybe once the Gaels get going. But other teams have been active, and with Navy's close loss to Life (five points), we feel we need to move them up (and also Lindenwood, who beat Navy last week).

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The other ranking that gave us headaches was Army-Notre Dame College-Penn State. Army lost to Notre Dame College, who lost to Penn State, who lost this past weekend to Army. All of the games were fairly close, although this weekend's 31-14 Army win was less close than the other games.

Complicating matters is the common opponent issue. While the three teams had relatively comparable results against Mary Washington and Kutztown, NDC's 32-12 loss to St. Bonaventure throws the calculations a little out of whack, as Penn State and Army both beat SBU and by almost identical scores.

But we also have Notre Dame College tying Davenport, a team that beat Penn State by 32. In the end we started with the premise that the Davenport results are correctly indicative of where Davenport is—tied with Notre Dame College and ahead of Penn State. We struggled with the St. Bonaventure result, but that result was on September 21, and the other common results are much more in favor of NDC than they are SBU.

In common results between Army, Penn State, and Notre Dame College, all three were 1-1, with Army having the best points-difference (+12) and Penn State the worst (-11).  It's very, very tight, but we have to take into account results now over older results. Army lost to Notre Dame College on October 5. Penn State beat NDC on September 14. Army beat Penn State on November 9.

Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 10
RankPrevTeamNotes
11LifeBeat Navy (5)
22Cal7s
34Lindenwood 
45NavyLost to Life (1)
53St Mary's 
66Kutztown 
77Arkansas StateBeat Arkansas
812ArmyBeat Penn State (9)
98BYUBeat Utah Valley (37)
1010DavenportBeat Clemson (23)
1010Notre Dame CollegeBeat Mary Washington (31)
129Penn StateLost to Army (12)
1313IonaBeat Fairfield (44)
1414IndianaBeat Ohio State (15)
1515Ohio StateLost to Indiana (14)
1616ColoradoBeat Utah State
1721IllinoisBeat Michigan (35)
1817Arizona7s
1918Colorado State 
2019Notre Dame 
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 10
2120UCLA7s
2222Central Washington 
2323Grand Canyon 
2424ClemsonLost to Davenport (10)
2525Texas A&MBeat Baylor 
2626St. Bonaventure 
2730NortheasternBeat AIC (36)
2829Boston CollegeBeat Syracuse (27)
2928OklahomaBeat North Texas
3038WisconsinBeat Michigan State (34)
3127SyracuseLost to Boston College (29)
3231Mary WashingtonLost to Notre Dame College (10)
3332UC Davis 
3433San Diego State 
3549TexasBeat LSU
3635MichiganBeat Michigan Sate (34), lost to Illinois (21)
3736American International CollegeLost to Northeastern (30)
3837Utah ValleyLost to BYU (8)
3939FordhamLost to Iona (13)
4040Air ForceBeat Wyoming
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 10

 

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